MPlayer for Windows (2019-10-15)

[LoRd_MuldeR]

Internet Explorer 9 Warning

When playing around with IE9 Beta, I also tested the download system on my homepage. After downloading the 'MPlayer for Windows' package, IE9 popped up some waring because the file is not digitally signed. Yes, the file is not digitally singed, but signing a file doesn't make it any more (or less) secure! Anyway, after I ignored the warning, I was able to run the installer I just downloaded. But every time I run the installer now (even from Explorer or Total Commander, not only from inside IE9), I get this warning message, which apparently cannot be disabled permanently:

http://img337.imageshack.us/img337/41/openfilesecuritywarning.png


And when I click "Run", the following error will occur, every single time:

http://img155.imageshack.us/img155/8787/nsiserror20100917002809.png

Obviously IE9 forces the downloaded installer to run in some ultra-restricted "sandbox" that doesn't even permit access to the TEMP folder :mad:

I did not find away to get rid of this new annoyance. So if you still use IE, this is the ultimate reason to finally switch to a "working" web-browser.

(BTW: If anybody knows how IE9 managed to prevent the installer from working correctly and how this can be repaired, please tell me!)

[mariush]

I think you can disable this by going to Properties and unchecking something... anyway, the info that the file was downloaded from the Internet is in an alternate stream if I remember correctly, so in theory you should be able to use SysInternals to edit or delete the alternate stream that tells the OS the file is from the wild bad web.

[lych_necross]

If you right click on the downloaded file and select properties, is there a button labeled Unlock? If so, click it. I remember having this issue with IE8 and I had to unlock files I downloaded to make that error go away.

[fastplayer]

First thing I do on a fresh setup is firing up gpedit.msc and disabling that stupid "zone stuff":
User Configuration --> Administrative Templates --> Windows Components --> Attachment Manager --> Do not preserve zone information in file attachments

[LoRd_MuldeR]

If you right click on the downloaded file and select properties, is there a button labeled Unlock? If so, click it. I remember having this issue with IE8 and I had to unlock files I downloaded to make that error go away.

Nope, the button you describe is not there, that's point ;)

Usually, when the warning appears (and when it can be disabled permanently with aforementioned button in file properties), there also is a checkbox in the warning message.

That checkbox is not there either! So there is no user-accessible option to disable the warning and/or make the installer work "properly" again :rolleyes:


First thing I do on a fresh setup is firing up gpedit.msc and disabling that stupid "zone stuff":
User Configuration --> Administrative Templates --> Windows Components --> Attachment Manager --> Do not preserve zone information in file attachments

I did so, but still the installer is prevented from working properly. At the same time an MD5-identical copy of the installer, in my original "release" directory works like a charm...

Any more suggestions on how to convince Windows/IE9 that the user and NOT Micor$oft decides which application is allowed to run on his computer?


I think you can disable this by going to Properties and unchecking something... anyway, the info that the file was downloaded from the Internet is in an alternate stream if I remember correctly, so in theory you should be able to use SysInternals to edit or delete the alternate stream that tells the OS the file is from the wild bad web.

I cannot find any alternate streams via "dir /R". Which of the various Sysinternals tools are you referring to?

[mariush]

I was talking about streams.exe from SysInternals Suite :


Streams v1.56 - Enumerate alternate NTFS data streams
Copyright (C) 1999-2007 Mark Russinovich
Sysinternals - www.sysinternals.com

usage: streams.exe [-s] [-d] <file or directory>
-s Recurse subdirectories
-d Delete streams

>streams -s c:\windows

Streams v1.56 - Enumerate alternate NTFS data streams
Copyright (C) 1999-2007 Mark Russinovich
Sysinternals - www.sysinternals.com

c:\windows\Cursors\arrow_n.cur:
:NEDTA.DAT:$DATA 6144
c:\windows\inf\oem7.inf:
:Zone.Identifier:$DATA 26
c:\windows\system32\drivers\ASACPI.sys:
:Zone.Identifier:$DATA 26

[LoRd_MuldeR]

I was talking about streams.exe from SysInternals Suite :


Streams v1.56 - Enumerate alternate NTFS data streams
Copyright (C) 1999-2007 Mark Russinovich
Sysinternals - www.sysinternals.com

usage: streams.exe [-s] [-d] <file or directory>
-s Recurse subdirectories
-d Delete streams

>streams -s c:\windows

Streams v1.56 - Enumerate alternate NTFS data streams
Copyright (C) 1999-2007 Mark Russinovich
Sysinternals - www.sysinternals.com

c:\windows\Cursors\arrow_n.cur:
:NEDTA.DAT:$DATA 6144
c:\windows\inf\oem7.inf:
:Zone.Identifier:$DATA 26
c:\windows\system32\drivers\ASACPI.sys:
:Zone.Identifier:$DATA 26


Nice tool. But no luck either. Apparently the execution "lock" isn't implemented as an alternate stream :rolleyes:

[lych_necross]

I'm running Windows 7 64bit and I just installed the new IE 9 beta to see this problem myself. I cannot reproduce the problem at all. It doesn't matter if I save the file to my hard drive first, or select run from within IE9, I don't get that problem. It just seems to work for me. I don't think its IE 9's fault (it maybe a permissions issue). Take a look at these sites:

http://www.captain.at/howto-linux-wine-error-writing-temporary-file.php
http://blog.fuelip.com/?p=157
http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/157304-folder-permissions.html

P.S., don't forget to make sure your environment variables are set correctly!

[LoRd_MuldeR]

I'm running Windows 7 64bit and I just installed the new IE 9 beta to see this problem myself. I cannot reproduce the problem at all. It doesn't matter if I save the file to my hard drive first, or select run from within IE9, I don't get that problem. It just seems to work for me.

Strange. Didn't you get the scary warning message about the file not being digitally signed, right after the download completed?

[LoRd_MuldeR]

It definitely is a IE9 problem, because when I download the file with another browser (Firefox, SeaMonkey, Opera, Chroma, Safari, ...) the installer works perfectly fine ;)

Also no environment variables need to be set for the installer to work correctly! I'm pretty sure NSIS properly detects the TEMP folder via Win32 API instead of relying on error-prone environment variables.

And of course this is NOT a permission issue. The identical (verified by MD5) installer launched from the same user account works perfectly fine, as long as it wasn't downloaded via IE9.


Anyway, I tried once again and the issue can be reproduced clearly:

(1) Downloading... (http://img18.imageshack.us/img18/4234/32ofmpui20100912fullpac.png)
(2) Download completed successfully. However a scary error message appears in order to confuse user. (http://img295.imageshack.us/img295/7365/viewdownloadswindowsint.png)
(3) Now click "Run" and see how IE9 managed to prevent the installer from working :mad: (http://img412.imageshack.us/img412/3601/nsiserror20100918015411.png)

[lych_necross]

I just tried it again. I forgot to mention earlier that I did get the "Publisher Could Not Be..." scary warning, but it ran just fine when I clicked run. Did your computer's event log say anything relevant?

[LoRd_MuldeR]

I just tried it again. I forgot to mention earlier that I did get the "Publisher Could Not Be..." scary warning, but it ran just fine when I clicked run. Did your computer's event log say anything relevant?

Nope.

[lych_necross]

Well, IE9 is still beta... I say go back to IE8 or use another, better, browser.

[User61]

Hi guys, I just gave Mulder's Mplayer package a spin and so far so good except that SMplayer takes a while to load the file that is being played. Even if the file is small. I have no such problems using the SMPlayer I downloaded from berlios.de Any clue why is this happening? I've tried messing around in the preferences but I can't figure out why is it taking some time to load the file instead of it being instant.

[LoRd_MuldeR]

Hi guys, I just gave Mulder's Mplayer package a spin and so far so good except that SMplayer takes a while to load the file that is being played. Even if the file is small. I have no such problems using the SMPlayer I downloaded from berlios.de Any clue why is this happening? I've tried messing around in the preferences but I can't figure out why is it taking some time to load the file instead of it being instant.

I can only speculate here. But first of all: The SMPlayer binary included in my package was taken from berlios.de, I don't make "custom" builds of SMPlayer.

However in my experience "slow" Anti-Virus software can significantly delay application startup, especially when the binaries are "packed". Any my installer does pack the binaries (optionally!).

What you can try: Temporarily disable the Anti-Virus software you are using and see if it makes any difference. Also you can try to disable UPX during setup.

[User61]

Disabling my antivirus doesn't solve the slow startup =S. How do I disable UPX during startup? Thanks. =)

[LoRd_MuldeR]

Disabling my antivirus doesn't solve the slow startup =S. How do I disable UPX during startup? Thanks. =)

When you run the 'MPlayer for Windows' installer, choose "custom" install mode. Then disable the "Optimize executable files (UPX)" option.
Note that you don't need to uninstall for this. It is sufficient to re-install to the same folder. Also note that the install size will be increased by a factor of 2x to 4x.

[User61]

When you run the 'MPlayer for Windows' installer, choose "custom" installer mode. Then disable the "Optimize executable files (UPX)" option

Still no go. I first ran the installer without uninstalling, then tried uninstalling and reinstalling. Still the same. Even loading SMPlayer on its own without playing any files is slow. Very weird indeed.

[LoRd_MuldeR]

Still no go. I first ran the installer without uninstalling, then tried uninstalling and reinstalling. Still the same. Even loading SMPlayer on its own without playing any files is slow. Very weird indeed.

There is one more thing I can think of:
In SMPlayer preferences, goto "Interface" -> "Instances" and disable "Use only one running instance of SMPlayer".

This way SMPlayer won't try to find a running instance on each start-up...

(Oh, and did you re-start your computer in the meantime? I once had a strange problem with SMPlayer responding extremely slow, but it went away after reboot)

[User61]

There is one more thing I can think of:
In SMPlayer preferences, goto "Interface" -> "Instances" and disable "Use only one running instance of SMPlayer".

This way SMPlayer won't try to find a running instance of start-up...

I had that disabled from the start. I tried to mirror my SMPlayer's preferences as much as I could just now, but it didn't help. I'll tinker around somemore tomorrow to see if I could diagnose what's wrong =S Thanks for the help. Much appreciated. =)

[rvm]

Take a look at the smplayer log (under the "options" menu). It might give a clue about where the delay happens.

[User61]

Take a look at the smplayer log (under the "options" menu). It might give a clue about where the delay happens.

I did a reboot and now sometimes SMPlayer loads almost instantly and sometimes not. Hmm =)

Anyway, here is the log from SMPlayer: http://pastie.org/private/ao3bs7e2cybmbwwz1uc8fg

And here for MPlayer:
http://pastie.org/private/nedl44izojqvgxotmz5ea

[lych_necross]

Maybe the slowdown has something to do with the font caching. What are your specs?

[User61]

Maybe the slowdown has something to do with the font caching. What are your specs?

The thing is .. SMPlayer that I downloaded earlier from berlios.de (earlier build than Mulder's packaged SMPlayer though and definitely different MPlayer build) doesn't suffer from the slow down.

I'm on a i7 930, 6GB of RAM.

Could it be because Mulder's SMPlayer is .. "portable"? Just a wild guess, pulling this one out of my ass.

[LoRd_MuldeR]

Maybe the slowdown has something to do with the font caching. What are your specs?

Font caching is done by MPlayer, not be SMPlayer. Thus it can delay MPlayer startup when you open a video file, but it doesn't effect SMPlayer startup.

Furthermore font caching it is done exactly once, when MPlayer is launched for the very first time.

Last but not least, my installer will update the font cache during setup, so actually you should never experience font config startup delay when using my installer...


Could it be because Mulder's SMPlayer is .. "portable"? Just a wild guess, pulling this one out of my ass.

Actually there is no "portable" and "none portable" version of SMPlayer.

The only difference is that when you re-name 'smplayer.exe' to 'smplayer_portable.exe' it will load the configuration file (smplayer.ini) from it's install folder.

So the program file itself is bit-identical...

[avih]

LoRd_MuldeR, What's the procedure to update your SMPlayer package to the new version while keeping my settings intact (and not using UPX and not installing the updater)? IIRC I never managed to re-install it withOUT it resetting my prefs..

[LoRd_MuldeR]

LoRd_MuldeR, What's the procedure to update your SMPlayer package to the new version while keeping my settings intact (and not using UPX and not installing the updater)? IIRC I never managed to re-install it withOUT it resetting my prefs..

Choose "custom" install mode and then uncheck both, "Reset all MPlayer options" and "Optimize executable files (UPX)", during setup !?

[cbor]

1. OpenSource Software
2. Cross-Platform: Windows, Linux, MacOS
4. More than 192 Video- and 85 Audioformats supported natively (that is: without additional software)
5. 100% Stand-Alone: No Plugins, Filters, Codecs or whatever needed
6. Several Front-Ends available: SMPlayer, MPUI and many more. Plus you can easily create your own!
7. No dependency on DirectShow or other proprietary technologies (huge difference to most players on Windows)
8. Several video renderers supported (Overlay and OpenGL on Windows)
9. Good playback performance

Need some more? ;)

OKAY - it says it's cross platform, so How Can I Install MPLayer on my MAC?

I have a video pen that I want to use, but I need this installed first <sigh>

Thanks for any help you guys can give me...

Craig

[avih]

Choose "custom" install mode and then uncheck both, "Reset all MPlayer options" and "Optimize executable files (UPX)", during setup !?
Clearly, that's the obvious choice, however, IIRC it haven't worked for me in the past. Will try with the new version and report back.

I should NOT uninstall previous installation, right? just install the new version on top of the older one?

[avih]

OK, it worked. I also left the next dialog (configure initial mpui/smplayer settings) at defaults (does the default selection reflect my current settings?). The only thing that didn't work is that for some reason the Arial font showed as a different font. Selecting another font and then Arial again didn't fix the issue but it's probably unrelated to your installer.

This is strange, I'm pretty sure I used the exact same procedure previously on more than one occasion, and it always reset my settings... well.. seem to work now. Good.

Thanks for the release :)

[LoRd_MuldeR]

OKAY - it says it's cross platform, so How Can I Install MPLayer on my MAC?

I have a video pen that I want to use, but I need this installed first <sigh>

Thanks for any help you guys can give me...

Craig

MPlayer is a cross-platform application indeed!

However the "MPlayer for Windows" package, as the name implies is, contains the Windows incarnation of MPlayer ;)

I have limited experience with MPlayer on Mac OS X, but you should look here:
http://www.mplayerhq.hu/design7/projects.html


I should NOT uninstall previous installation, right? just install the new version on top of the older one?

Yes, that's how it is supposed to work.


The only thing that didn't work is that for some reason the Arial font showed as a different font. Selecting another font and then Arial again didn't fix the issue but it's probably unrelated to your installer.

Sounds more like a font-config thing :rolleyes:

[virdicyer]

FLVs run too fast (at least 2x) and 720p videos are choppy with this latest October build. I installed mplayer from smplayer's site and it runs smoothly.

[User61]

Hi there, I'm using the October package and OSD doesn't seem to work. Am I the only one having this problem?

--
Ah .. changing the output driver from gl2 (yuv) to direct3d enables the OSD. Hmm.

[cweb]

Hi Mulder

Hope you are ok.. what happened to your website?
It's down for me at least..

[LoRd_MuldeR]

Hi Mulder

Hope you are ok.. what happened to your website?
It's down for me at least..

http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=158679

[LoRd_MuldeR]

I finally put together a new package today:

[2011-03-26]
* MPlayer binaries updated to SVN-r33107
* No "MT" builds anymore, as the MT-branch has been merged into FFmpeg
* UAC Plugin for NSIS updated to Version 0.2.2d
* QT Runtime Libs updated to Version 4.7.2
* Updated binary Codecs to the package released on 2011-01-31

The installer needed quite a few changes to make UMUI work with the latest UAC plug-in.
I'm waiting for some feedback until I push this to the update server...

[ffmpeg]

long waited....

[Clobon]

Finally^^

Installed it and it looks good so far. More after a few days of testing. Thanks so far.

Regards, Clobon

[Reimar]

I finally put together a new package today:

The installer needed quite a few changes to make UMUI work with the latest UAC plug-in.
I'm waiting for some feedback until I push this to the update server...

You might want to update it before, frame-multithreading wasn't working in that version, and dvdnav:// (seeking) and rtp:// (with cache enabled) were broken as well.
In addition -noslices was made default when multiple threads are used, this fixes that MPEG-2 decoding would break when threads were enabled (EDIT: this hopefully means that it's now safe to have lavdopts=threads=4 or similar in the config file).
You should be using r33122 or later (so if you grab the latest oss.netfarm.it one it should be fine).

[LoRd_MuldeR]

You might want to update it before, frame-multithreading wasn't working in that version, and dvdnav:// (seeking) and rtp:// (with cache enabled) were broken as well.
In addition -noslices was made default when multiple threads are used, this fixes that MPEG-2 decoding would break when threads were enabled (EDIT: this hopefully means that it's now safe to have lavdopts=threads=4 or similar in the config file).
You should be using r33122 or later (so if you grab the latest oss.netfarm.it one it should be fine).

Yeah I noticed that myself (only one CPU is used, no matter what). And then I read about multi-threading being broken on Sherpya's site.

So I will update to the "fixed" builds as soon as possible!

[EDIT]

Problem with SMPlayer is that it explicitly enables slices when option "Draw video using slices" is checked (and unfortunately that option is checked by default).

Consequently I will implement a workaround for that issue...

[LoRd_MuldeR]

MPlayer for Windows 2011-03-27 :)

[2011-03-27]
* MPlayer binaries updated to SVN-r33124
* Fixed multi-threading (was broken with MPlayer SVN-r33107)
* WARNING: Option "Draw video using slices" causes video distortions or crash!
* Various installer bugfixes

[2011-03-26]
* MPlayer binaries updated to SVN-r33107
* No "MT" builds anymore, as the MT-branch has been merged into FFmpeg
* UAC Plugin for NSIS updated to Version 0.2.2d
* QT Runtime Libs updated to Version 4.7.2
* Updated binary Codecs to the package released on 2011-01-31

Download #1: http://code.google.com/p/mulder/downloads/detail?name=MPUI.2011-03-27.Full-Package.exe&can=2&q=
Download #2: http://code.google.com/p/mulder/downloads/detail?name=MPUI.2011-03-27.Light-Package.exe&can=2&q=

[pletina]

no, in my computer, MPlayer for Windows 2011-03-27 is not multithread. sorry my bad english.
mplayer kovensky is multithread.

thanks.

[LoRd_MuldeR]

no, in my computer, MPlayer for Windows

The SVN-r33124 definitely are multi-threaded. However not all encoders are multi-threaded.

Try H.264 and make sure "-lavdopts threads=2" (or higher) is set. You can configure this option in SMPlayer under preferences/performance.

http://img30.imageshack.us/img30/6396/clipboard40.th.png (http://img30.imageshack.us/img30/6396/clipboard40.png)

[LoRd_MuldeR]

MPlayer for Windows 2011-04-14 :)

[2011-04-14]
* MPlayer binaries updated to SVN-r33216
* SMPlayer updated to Version 0.6.9 (SVN-r3604)

Download #1: http://code.google.com/p/mulder/downloads/detail?name=MPUI.2011-04-14.Full-Package.exe&can=2&q=
Download #2: http://code.google.com/p/mulder/downloads/detail?name=MPUI.2011-04-14.Light-Package.exe&can=2&q=

[LoRd_MuldeR]

MPlayer for Windows 2011-05-25 :)

[2011-05-25]
* MPlayer binaries updated to SVN-r33488
* SMPlayer updated to Version 0.6.9 (SVN-r3607)
* QT Runtime Libs updated to Version 4.7.3

Important: If you encounter sound distortions with MP3 files using the default "ffmp3float" decoder, like I do, then try using the "ffmp3" or "mp3lib" decoder!

Download #1: http://code.google.com/p/mulder/downloads/detail?name=MPUI.2011-05-25.Full-Package.exe&can=2&q=
Download #2: http://code.google.com/p/mulder/downloads/detail?name=MPUI.2011-05-25.Light-Package.exe&can=2&q=

[ElQuia]

Hi guys. Problem with last build (05-25): installing without reseting all settings on run all my system freezes (win 7 x64) totally (no ctrl alt del, no mouse, nothing), if i install and reset settings video is VERY jerky and out if sync with audio. If I revert (using a backup) to build 04-14 WITHOUT changing anything else in systeme ALL works OK.

Idea Please? Where to start troubleshooting?

[LoRd_MuldeR]

Idea Please? Where to start troubleshooting?

Hm, the only thing I can remember is that I changed the "audio/video auto synchronization" factor from 100 to 30 recently.

I have the impression that this gives more fluid playback on my system (and it's also the value mentioned in the MPlayer manpage).

You can try testing different values there or you can try to disable the "audio/video auto synchronization" altogether.

In addition to that, you may want to test the "OpenGL" renderer (with its various YUV modes) against the "Direct3D" renderer.

Last but not least: Is the problem only present with SMPlayer GUI or also when you run MPlayer from console? :confused:

[ElQuia]

you can try to disable the "audio/video auto synchronization" altogether.

I have it of, on my system (with build 14-04) even HD videos play OK without this on.

In addition to that, you may want to test the "OpenGL" renderer (with its various YUV modes) against the "Direct3D" renderer.

I have video output driver set as: gl:yuv=2, that is the value that setup orginally detected and configured with 04-14

Last but not least: Is the problem only present with SMPlayer GUI or also when you run MPlayer from console?

uh ..... Newbie ...don´t know how to do that. ¿Could you provide some tips? (Windows 7 x64).

Other: what could happen if I install new build resetting settings and copy the ini file back from a backup?

[ElQuia]

OTHER:

Whats about MPlayer2 (http://www.mplayer2.org/)?

[LoRd_MuldeR]

I have it of, on my system (with build 14-04) even HD videos play OK without this on.

So your problem is solved with "audio/video auto synchronization" disabled?

I have video output driver set as: gl:yuv=2, that is the value that setup orginally detected and configured with 04-14

Still you should give the other renderers, especially Direct3D, a try...

uh ..... Newbie ...don´t know how to do that. ¿Could you provide some tips? (Windows 7 x64).

Open a new console (e.g. Start -> Run -> "cmd.exe")

Change current directory to the MPlayer directory (e.g. "cd c:\Program Files (x86)\MPlayer for Windows")

Run MPlayer with some video file (e.g. "mplayer.exe c:\foo\bar\video.avi")

Other: what could happen if I install new build resetting settings and copy the ini file back from a backup?

Not much I guess, as nothing has changed (except for what I already mentioned).